dragging her into the woods so i can take her soul.

not out of cruelty but out of a love no heart could survive

I desire to extract her soul from her chest, not for the sake of power, but to ensure that no other entity be it death, life, the sky, or the earth can ever possess her

I place my fingers upon her forehead, whispering a spell that no one has dared to utter for centuries.

The trees lean in like witnesses to a sin they've waited centuries to see. Somewhere behind us, the path erases itself no one follows no one finds

I've stolen a soul not to destroy it, but to keep it. To wear it around my neck like a locket no one can open. To love it in the dark where no god can see.